Louisiana may significantly trim the $100 million annual bill it pays to cover its share of the $14.6 billion post-Katrina New Orleans area hurricane protection system if a gambit by the state's congressional delegation to require the Army Corps of Engineers to renegotiate the state's terms is successful.
On Wednesday, a House Transportation subcommittee agreed to include a renegotiation requirement authored by Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, in the House version of the 2020 Water Resources Development Act, which includes various projects overseen by the Corps. The provision also was supported by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, and Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans.
Besides it will give us a leg up on paying off the next massive levee project that will definitely have to be built in the next 5-10 years anyway if we are going to continue living here.
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